Kajri Jain: On art, religion, business, and the work of the imagination

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Kajri Jain is an Associate Professor of Indian Visual Culture and Contemporary Art in the Department of Visual Studies at U of T Mississauga and in the Department of Art at UofT St. George, with a cross-appointment at the Institute for Cinema Studies and in the Centre for South Asian Studies. She is interested in how the values associated with images arise not only from what you see in the visual representation, but also from the production, circulation and deployments of images as material objects. She initially trained as a graphic designer at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India, but has been on faculty at UofT since 2007. On this episode of the podcast we are talking art, art history, and the importance of Art and imagination in research, but also in today’s world with Professor Kajri Jain from UTM’s Department of Visual Studies. On this episode of the podcast Kajri talks about art, art history, and the importance of Art and imagination in research, but also in today’s world. A full transcript of the podcast interview is available: https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/vp-research/sites/files/vp-research/shared/KJ-transcribed%2CDec2018.pdf.